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Nov 20, 2008
STI closes 3.1% lower

SINGAPORE shares closed lower with the benchmark Straits Times Index down 51.64 points, or 3.10 per cent, at 1,613.95.

Around 950.5 million shares exchanged hands.

Losers beat gainers 324 to 140.

 
 
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